VoicesinJapan

Twitter fills a void in Japan. Unlike Facebook, Twitter doesn’t require people to use their real names. A lot of Japanese consumers sign up with user names that correspond with a specific interest. This enables people to connect with others who are interested the same niche subject.

May 23
04:22 pm JST

May 23
05:24 pm JST

They did this to hide in that Japanese start-up Mixi, too, and it died because what was supposed to be an SNS became a scattered group of public interests with no faces, no names, and no real heart. Why are Japanese so scared of using their names?